DNS HOWTO

Nicolai Langfeldt janl@linpro.no

1. Preamble

• 1.1 Legal stuff
• 1.2 Credits and request for help.
• 1.3 Dedication

2. Introduction.

3. A resolving, caching name server.

• 3.1 Starting named
• 3.2 Resolvers
• 3.3 Congratulations

4. Forwarding

5. A simple domain.

• 5.1 But first some dry theory
• 5.2 Our own domain
• 5.3 The reverse zone
• 5.4 Words of caution
• 5.5 Why reverse lookups don't work.
• 5.6 Slave servers

6. A real domain example

• 6.1 /etc/named.conf (or /var/named/named.conf)
• 6.2 /var/named/root.hints
• 6.3 /var/named/zone/127.0.0
• 6.4 /var/named/zone/land-5.com
• 6.5 /var/named/zone/206.6.177

7. Maintenance

8. Converting from version 4 to version 8

9. Questions and Answers

10. How to become a bigger time DNS admin.